I Thought It Would Be Funny

Today, a woman with a tiny chihuahua on her way past me somewhere in a hurry called out "I love your suspenders" and instead of my default "Thanks, they keep my pants up" which is accurate, but often taken as a joke, and not the ideal response to a compliment (which is to return it), I said "Thanks, I love your dog!" This is an improvement, but still fundamentally misses the point of actually returning a compliment. I didn't have long to take much in about her but a white lie like "I love your hair" or "That's a nice shirt" or something would not have been amiss. But no. I complimented the dog.

In my own campaign, I've gone largely with the 4th edition idea, and Celestial and Infernal are both *dialects* of Supernal. In-game, for obvious "I went to Catholic school" reasons, I represent both dialects with Latin. When called upon to have an NPC speak in their dialect, my pronunciation varies: Church Latin for Celestial and reconstructed Classical Latin for Infernal.

I keep seeing screencaps from the new(?) one they're doing, which has a deliberately retro 80s/90s style to it, which is charming, but the characters are also era-appropriately expressive, which is downright weird for what I remember of those characters. It's like they're entirely different people.

Currently in the middle of sloppy basecoats on my Locutarus Storm Squad and jump Champion, just need to not think about how they look *currently* and keep plugging away. Trust the process, right?

Ideal world, I hit them perfectly in every angle with a perfectly thin layer of Chaos Black spray. No other black primer preserves detail as well, dries as quickly, and is as durable. I absolutely hate that for once the overpriced GW one really is the best one, but so it goes.

But I have brush-on Vallejo black primer, and it's nearly as good, so long as I'm not being slapdash about it. It's not as durable, and it can have brushstrokes in it (being brush-on primer) if I'm not very careful, but it's good the hell enough for most things, up to and including highly detailed resin character minis.

Right now I don't have any Chaos Black spray, because if I'm at the hobby store, there are other things I'd rather spend $20 on. I do have some Army Painter black spray, but it's not as good with detail and it takes longer to dry. It's perfectly good for like, vehicles, maybe basic troops where you gotta bang out 20 to 40 of them and some details are going to be half-assed anyway, but I don't really like it for characters or otherwise eye-catching units. So that makes it easy, right?

Well, no, because the mental debate becomes "Do I brush-prime these, or do I put them aside until I can afford and/or be bothered to go to the nerd store and buy some Chaos Black spray."

All this is to say that I only finally tonight started actually brush priming the Phraetus Anointed I built like two weeks ago, but once the dam broke, I started brush priming the other stuff I've been building out of the Maximus Battle Force I scored earlier this week.

And the worst part? Priming is not even remotely the only thing I get 'stuck' on like this. I've been told it's an ADHD thing, but yeah. It's some kind of executive dysfunction. "Want do thing. Need do other things first" (true or made-up rule) or "Need decide first step" and then sit there, brain revving and trying to go, body just. Sitting there.

Man I wish I could 'just do' things. But no, apparently, sometimes I'll literally sit there for hours at a stretch, days if you allow for the occasional break to go to the bathroom and sleep and maybe eat, trying to will myself to just get up just go and do the thing it's fine just get started you'll fall into a rhythm just do it stand up turn around and stand up and on the inside I'm fighting for my life but on the outside I'm, idk, playing Civ for a week straight.

The new contemptor kit coming with one of every major weapon option is pretty cool. Like, a lot of the time you'll want to double up and really lock it in to a dedicated role (like my tank-hunting double lascannon one) but you can always trade with somebody, or, as GW probably wants you to do, buy two contemptors and make one double melta and the other double volkite or the like.

I now have 3 contemptor dreadnoughts: one easy-build one from way back with assault cannon and fist, one with dual claws, and now my dual lascannon one. I'm strongly considering chopping up the easy build one and replacing his fist arm with another assault cannon or maybe the volkite weapon to make him more dedicated anti-infantry. And even THEN, I'm feeling tempted to build a dual volkite or dual conversion beamer one. I should not do that! That's too many contemptors!